ESSAY: METEOROLOGISTS AND THE SACRED POSITION BETWEEN PEOPLE AND SCIENCE...
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Whether doctor or meteorologist, when we fail to look at the systemic causes of the immediate problems in front of us, we are guilty of malpractice...
Read moreTHE SUNDAY SHOWS IGNORED THIS CALAMITOUS GLOBAL WARMING REPORT, BUT ‘SNL’ DIDN’T...
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Debates about inaugural crowd size drowned out more weighty matters...
Read moreSEA LEVEL RISE ESTIMATE GROWS ALARMINGLY HIGHER IN LATEST FEDERAL REPORT...
Places like Robbins, Md., already struggling with sea level rise, could see even more flooding under new federal projections. Credit: Getty Images
NOAA's latest report arrives, predicting worst-case scenario of 8 feet of rise by century's end, just as Donald Trump takes office with pro-fossil fuel policies...
Read moreEUROPE FACES DROUGHTS, FLOODS AND STORMS AS CLIMATE CHANGE ACCELERATES...
The dry Var riverbed in Carros, southern France, September 2016. Photograph: Sebastien Nogier/EPA
Europe and northern hemisphere are warming at faster pace than the global average and ‘multiple climatic hazards’ are expected, says study...
Read moreTRUMP NOMINEE PLEDGES TO SHIELD NOAA CLIMATE SCIENTISTS FROM INTIMIDATION, CENSORSHIP...
People hold signs as they listen to a group of scientists speak during a rally on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, in San Francisco. Image: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP
SEATTLE — Climate scientists throughout the federal government are fearing an onslaught of budget cuts and censorship policies from the President Donald Trump administration, with sweeping changes expected governing how climate science is funded and communicated to the public...
Read moreTRUMP ADMINISTRATION TELLS EPA TO CUT CLIMATE PAGE FROM WEBSITE: SOURCES...
Children play amid icebergs on the beach in Nuuk, Greenland, June 5, 2016. REUTERS/Alister Doyle
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate change page from its website, two agency employees told Reuters, the latest move by the newly minted leadership to erase ex-President Barack Obama's climate change initiatives...
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Read moreWE ARE DESTROYING RAINFORESTS SO QUICKLY THEY MAY BE GONE IN 100 YEARS...
Likouala-aux-Herbes river near in Congo-Brazzaville. The Congo Basin is the world’s second largest tropical forest. Photograph: Hope Productions/Yann Arthus Bertrand / Getty Images/Getty Images
At current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor nations are helped to preserve them...
Read morePOLITICAL SUPPRESSION OF SCIENCE: LESSONS FROM CANADA...
The politicization of science can involve funding cutbacks or restriction on research topics, but also the deliberate elimination of existing data. Photo by DWImages/Alamy Stock Photo
Canadian scientists are lending support to worried American peers...
Read moreWE’RE NOW BREAKING GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RECORDS ONCE EVERY THREE YEARS...
February 2016 was the warmest February in 136 years of Nasa’s modern temperature records. Global temperature records were broken throughout 2016. Photograph: GISS/NASA
Denial and “alternative facts” haven’t stopped the Earth from warming to record-shattering levels...
Read moreCDC QUIETLY CANCELS LONG-PLANNED CLIMATE SUMMIT...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has canceled a summit on climate change and public health. One former CDC director said the agency’s climate change work has reduced mortality rates in Philadelphia, which, as shown in this 2013 photograph, has been coping with unusual heat waves. Photo courtesy of AP Images.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly and abruptly canceled a major climate change summit scheduled for next month shortly after Donald Trump was elected president, according to emails sent to those scheduled to speak and obtained by E&E News...
Read moreCLIMATE REGULATIONS UNDER A WATCHFUL INTERNET EYE...
Any time President Trump changes a regulation involving climate or energy, a new website will track it. Credit: Getty Images
Bracing for a rollback, website run by Columbia Law School alerts any time President Trump or Congress change a rule involving climate change or energy...
Read moreDONALD TRUMP PLANS TO 'REFORM' THE WAY ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY USES SCIENCE, REPORT CLAIMS...
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The leaked report is an extreme version of the kind of climate plans that the Trump camp has already put forward...
Read moreONE OF THE LAST OBAMA-ERA CLIMATE REPORTS HAD A TROUBLING UPDATE ABOUT THE RISING SEAS...
A new report, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on the last day of Barack Obama’s presidency, presents a series of updated estimates for future sea-level rise, both in the United States and worldwide. It suggests that, under extreme future climate change, global sea levels could rise by more than eight feet by the end of the century — one of the highest estimates yet to be presented in a federal report...
Read moreGOVERNMENT 'TRIED TO BURY' ITS OWN ALARMING REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE...
#1 Video: CIA director nominee Mike Pompeo refuses to accept Nasa's findings on climate change...
#2 Video: Climate change: It's "game over" for planet earth...
In the report, the Government said high-risk issues that needed to be addressed included the damage expected to be caused by flooding. credit: Getty
Exclusive: The five-yearly assessment of what will happen to the UK as the world warms says one of an array of potential threats is the ‘significant risk’ to supplies of food...
Read moreFLOOD DISASTERS MORE THAN DOUBLE ACROSS EUROPE IN 35 YEARS...
Cars swept into a pile by torrential rain in Genoa, Italy Saturday. Photograph: Antonio Calanni/AP
Insurance firm research reveals steep increase in flash floods and says rise is in line with climate change...
Read moreAS U.S. CEDES LEADERSHIP ON CLIMATE, OTHERS STEP UP AT DAVOS...
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DAVOS, Switzerland — When the chief executive of Saudi Arabia’s national oil and gas company mapped out a glowing future for fossil fuels at a discussion in Davos this past week, dissent came from an unexpected corner of the room...
Read moreAS TRUMP ENTERS WHITE HOUSE, CALIFORNIA RENEWS CLIMATE CHANGE FIGHT...
A truck engine is tested for pollution exiting its exhaust pipe as California Air Resources field representatives (unseen) work a checkpoint set up to inspect heavy-duty trucks traveling near the Mexican-U.S. border in Otay Mesa, California September 10, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Blake
California released new measures to fight climate change within minutes of Donald Trump being sworn in as U.S. president on Friday, signaling the state's commitment to be the nation's environmental steward under an administration that has questioned the reality of global warming...
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